Embers of Sword

Chapter 378 Spring Ploughing and Autumn Harvest

The dim thatched hut is illuminated by the light of the Way of Life.

"Mr. Xiao Xie..."

The old man lying on the bed slowly opened his eyes.

Zheng Fengsheng had vaguely heard the conversation between the two before, but at that time he wanted to open his eyes but couldn't.

At this moment, with the help of the laws of life.

He finally took back control of this body from the disease.

"Thank you for your kindness."

The old man smiled and said in a hoarse voice: "I know, I'm about to die... You don't have to waste your energy to save me."

Xie Xuanyi looked at the old man calmly.

He shook his head and said, "Empty your mind, clear your sea of consciousness, and don't leave any distracting thoughts. This way, the next treatment will go more smoothly."

He promised Chu Guo that he would try his best to save people.

Xie Xuanyi rarely makes promises.

But what you say must be done, and what you do must be fulfilled.

"Is this... the legendary 'Dao'?"

Zheng Fengsheng's voice was filled with emotion.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the scattered laws of life in front of him, which turned into white clouds and fell on his body like catkins.

"Have you heard of 'Tao Ze'?"

Xie Xuanyi said.

"I've heard of it. I've never seen it."

Zheng Fengsheng stretched out his palm, and the soft light caressed him, and he also caressed the soft light.

The old man murmured, "I've lived for so long in this life, I must have met a few immortal masters... I heard that this is a power that can only be mastered by those who are at the Cave Heaven Realm, close to the Yin God Realm."

"Yes."

Xie Xuanyi did not shy away from saying, “After being promoted to the Yin God Realm, these Dao principles will condense into Dao Realm, just like fruits growing on trees in spring.”

The principles of life have already penetrated into the old man's body.

Xie Xuanyi's spiritual consciousness was also immersed in it.

He successfully saw the old man's meridians and acupoints...which were the same as he had guessed before.

Ping Zhicheng's knife cut off his legs and also cut off his life.

The remains of this body are already soaked with poison.

If you want to save Zheng Fengsheng, you have to separate these toxins from the blood.

This is almost impossible to accomplish.

“Someone said that to me.”

Zheng Fengsheng sighed again and said, "That was a very strange Taoist priest. He said that there is no difference between practitioners and ordinary people. People's practice is nothing more than spring plowing and autumn harvesting. Planting causes in spring and harvesting fruits in autumn. However, for different practitioners... the causes and effects of sowing are different, and the length of the four seasons will also become different."

“The person who said this is quite interesting.”

Xie Xuanyi said perfunctorily: "What else did he say?"

In fact, he didn't care at all what the man said.

Ninety percent of his energy was focused on examining Zheng Fengsheng's remains.

Leaving some energy to talk to Zheng Fengsheng was to stabilize the other party.

Cure diseases and save lives.

It is not a simple matter of one party doing the work and the other party bearing the consequences.

The poison from Zheng Fengsheng's broken leg has spread to all parts of his body, even his forehead is not spared.

Xie Xuanyi needs to maintain Lao Zheng's emotions and keep him sober.

Keeping talking to him is a good idea.

"He also said..."

Zheng Fengsheng thought for a moment and said, "The most worthless thing in the world is weeds. Even if they are burned by wildfires, they will be everywhere again when the spring breeze blows. It is better not to have such karma than to cultivate it. If you want to practice, you must practice the way to heaven... It's a pity that the way to heaven is not so easy to practice."

“It might be a little painful next.”

Xie Xuanyi didn't listen too carefully. He stretched out his palm and slowly pressed it on the old man's broken leg: "You can continue."

A ray of the principle of life falls on the patella.

"Chi chi chi——"

The Way of Life turned into a tiny vortex and began to absorb the toxins in the blood.

"Well……"

Old Zheng coughed dully.

He forced a smile: "Mr. Xie, I know you are Xie Zhen from Chu State."

The vortex of the Law of Life paused slightly.

"It's not hard to guess."

Xie Xuanyi lowered his eyebrows and said, "As long as we connect the closure of Yuanzhou with the loss of contact with the Fanyin Temple delegation, we can guess something. So what if you know it?"

"I am from Liguo."

Zheng Fengsheng said with a hint of sadness in his voice, "You saved me, aren't you afraid of being betrayed by me?"

"If you were going to betray me, you would have done it a long time ago."

Xie Xuanyi said calmly: "The night when the Buddha statue of Yuanguang Temple was toppled was a good opportunity."

Zheng Fengsheng asked: "Is it possible... that I hadn't confirmed your identity at that time?"

"No need to say these useless words anymore."

"I can tell whether it's good or evil at a glance."

Xie Xuanyi remained indifferent, but frowned: "You don't seem to want me to save you, why?"

"My being alive is not a good thing for Xiao Chu."

Zheng Fengsheng's voice was trembling. Although he was still laughing, there was more sadness in his voice: "I know you are here to find him... If I were alive, he would not go with you."

"..."

Xie Xuanyi remained silent, but the Vortex of Life's treatment did not stop.

Half of the toxin has been drawn out.

To the chest cavity.

It becomes extremely difficult to absorb and eliminate these toxins.

He began to add the "Immortal Spring Steam" into the principles of life.

This is after comprehending the principles of life.

For the first time, Xie Xuanyi exhausted the Fountain of Immortality in an attempt to save someone.

He fell into an unprecedented wonderful state.

The water vapor of the Immortal Spring born in the Dantian swept into Zheng Fengsheng's body, and Xie Xuanyi's mind followed the Immortal Spring and immersed in it... He originally just wanted to see these meridians and acupoints clearly, and remove the toxins that had merged into the blood, but all this brought him to an "unexpected place".

It was all silvery white here, as if there had been a heavy snowfall.

This should be the so-called "Purple Mansion Divine Sea".

The vast majority of mortals have not awakened this place, but it does not mean that they do not have the Purple Palace or the Divine Sea.

This is where memories and souls are stored.

In the past, if one wanted to spy on the Purple Mansion, one would have to resort to some means.

For example, "Soul Search".

But this time... after the Immortal Fountain soaked into his body.

Xie Xuanyi arrived at this undeveloped sea of ​​divine land with great ease.

He stood silently in the silver-white world.

on the bed.

Zheng Fengsheng felt that he had lost consciousness all over his body. He lay quietly, looking at the white light enveloping him.

For some reason, the pain beneath me began to dissipate.

A strong feeling of dizziness came over me.

He closed his eyes uncontrollably.

Memories drifted and pulled, back to the year when I picked up Chu Guo.

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It was an extremely cold winter.

Zheng Fengsheng decided to end his life on his own.

Life is a boring journey. For Zheng Fengsheng, there is nothing worth lingering on in this world.

There was a rebellion in Yuanzhou.

His wife, children, and relatives were all killed in the war.

He fled alone, in a miserable state, barely surviving...

This year, I was trampled upon and insulted.

The very thought of living had become a painful torment.

In the end, Zheng Fengsheng fled to Pingzhi City, where there was an ancestral home, and he planned to hang himself at home.

It snowed heavily that day.

Zheng Fengsheng returned to his ancestral home with his bag on his back and saw a swaddling cloth placed in front of the door.
Because Your Majesty is ill, there is civil unrest in the country and the heroes are fighting each other, and they regard this barren land of Yuanzhou as a wrestling arena.

The gods fight, and the common people suffer.

The issue of "abandoning babies" is not uncommon these days.

Zheng Fengsheng originally thought that this was just an ordinary abandoned baby.

But there was no crying in the cradle.

Zheng Fengsheng stepped forward and took a look.

The baby was not dead.

Instead, he opened his round, dark eyes and looked at himself calmly.

He was stunned for a moment and subconsciously prepared to ignore it.

I am a dying man myself.

How could a second person be saved?
He chuckled to himself and decided to ignore the baby.

After Zheng Fengsheng set up the rope for hanging in the ancestral home, he suddenly began to hesitate. After a long time, he returned to the door of the ancestral home and picked up the child.

The baby still did not cry, but instead showed a pure smile, with childish and innocent smile in his eyes.

Zheng Fengsheng took a deep breath.

He had originally planned to do one last good deed before his death, giving the child a hot bath, and then knocking on every door, asking if there was any kind-hearted person willing to adopt the child.

But after he opened the swaddling clothes.

All plans were disrupted.

The child was holding a gold-plated jade identity card in his arms.

There is a word engraved on it.

褚！
Zheng Fengsheng regretted his decision...

In recent days, the Iron Horse Patrol is strictly investigating the thief. If someone really has good intentions and chooses to adopt this child, he or she will most likely be implicated in the future.

Zheng Fengsheng was troubled for a long time.

In the end, he decided to raise the child himself... since he was already a "dying man" anyway.

It would be fine if the Yuanzhou cavalry killed him.

This dark and gloomy life ends here.

Unexpectedly.

The aggressive cavalry curfew in Pingzhi City soon came to an end.

No one made things difficult for him, and no one investigated this child who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Perhaps it was because of the good fortune he had accumulated from practicing medicine over the years, and the child was also protected by it... Unexpectedly, no one was suspicious of this baby of unknown origin.

That year, Yuanzhou was completely broken and plunged into a turbulent era.

But that year was a "rebirth" for Zheng Fengsheng.

It's not so much that he saved the child's life.

It would be better to say that this child saved his life.

He was a man who mustered up the courage to commit suicide...

The night I picked up the Chu fruit.

The courage that I had mustered up just dissipated.

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Xie Xuanyi stood in Pingzhi City late at night where heavy snow was falling.

This was the first time he used the power of the "Immortal Fountain" to peek into a person's past.

He saw the story hidden in the deepest part of Zheng Fengsheng's heart.

That year.

The emperor of the Great Chu Imperial City passed away, and the Holy Empress took power. In order to continue the orthodox lineage, Yan Xin and Chen Jingxuan sent the prince Chu Guo across the border... The person who placed the abandoned baby in front of the ancestral home in Pingzhi City, whom Zheng Fengsheng had never seen, should be the trustworthy "Fire Lord" mentioned by Chen Jingxuan.

Although we have never met.

But Xie Xuanyi had already vaguely sensed the purpose of Chen Jingxuan's description.

The Fire Lord did choose a good family for Chu Guo.

From the current perspective, Zheng Fengsheng has placed all the kindness and good will in his heart on this child.

But... Xie Xuanyi vaguely felt that something was wrong.

I was able to see this scene because I was using the Immortal Fountain to heal Zheng Fengsheng. The water vapor reached the depths of Zheng Fengsheng's "Sea of ​​God".

This memory represents the part that Zheng Fengsheng cares about the most.

But the dream did not end there.

Heavy snow fell, and the snowflakes from Pingzhi City buried Zheng Fengsheng's ancestral home and Xie Xuanyi.

The whistling sound lasted for a long time.

Xie Xuanyi saw a second figure walking out from the heavy snow.

He was stunned.

The figure walked in the snow, free and easy, with his robe blown by the wind, as if he had merged into one with the world.

But Xie Xuanyi recognized it at the first sight.

This is... Lu Yuzhen? !
and many more……

Xie Xuanyi suddenly remembered what Zheng Fengsheng had just said to him.

[“Someone said this to me.”]

【“That’s a very strange Taoist priest.”】

Xie Xuanyi, who was treating Zheng Fengsheng, didn't pay much attention to this sentence at the time.

A day with heavy snow.

Lu Yuzhen came to the ancestral home in Pingzhi City alone and knocked on the door very politely.

The person who opened the door was Zheng Fengsheng, who looked haggard and had gray hair.

This should be the day when Zheng Fengsheng had just "come back to life" not long ago, and Xie Xuanyi saw the baby in Zheng Fengsheng's arms.

"Congratulations! It's not easy to have a child in old age."

Lu Yuzhen bowed to Zheng Fengsheng and said with a smile: "I am here to beg for alms."

The baby in the cradle did not cry, but just looked at the Taoist priest in front of him calmly.

Zheng Fengsheng said in a hoarse voice, "That's all."

He took out a copper coin.

Lu Yuzhen didn't think it was too little. He stretched out his hand to receive it and said softly, "What a pleasant surprise... There aren't many people willing to give alms these days. The donor is a very kind person."

"There are not many Taoists begging for alms in Liguo. I heard that there are many grievances between the Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry and the Buddhist sect. Taoist disciples may also be implicated. It is better to go out less during this period."

Zheng Fengsheng kindly reminded him of this and then prepared to close the door.

"Please wait."

Lu Yuzhen stretched out his hand and gently pressed the door.

He narrowed his eyes and smiled: "According to the customs over there, some things cannot be accepted for free."

Zheng Fengsheng was stunned.

"Accepting money from others, and helping them to get rid of disasters."

Lu Yuzhen said softly and seriously: "Have you named your child yet?"

"name?"

Zheng Fengsheng was stunned again. He had just picked up this abandoned baby and had not thought about naming it yet.

Lu Yuzhen smiled and asked, "What's the child's last name?"

"Chu...Chu?"

Zheng Fengsheng subconsciously spoke, reading the word on the jade token, and then corrected it, "Clearly."

"If you don't mind, then use this name... This name brings great fortune."

Lu Yuzhen stretched out a finger and slowly wrote a word in front of Zheng Fengsheng.

This is the character for "fruit".

"Guo...Chu Guo?"

Zheng Fengsheng looked at the Taoist priest in front of him, feeling somewhat confused: "Sir, what is the meaning of this name?"

"I am a practitioner."

The Taoist priest in white robe bowed and said slowly: "But cultivators are actually no different from ordinary people. The so-called cultivation is nothing more than a spring plowing and autumn harvest. Planting causes in spring and harvesting fruits in autumn, but for different cultivators... the causes and effects they sow are different, and the length of the four seasons will also become different."

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(This is the last update of this year! I wish everyone a safe and happy new year!)
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